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A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

To honor a beloved Austin radio DJ a neighborhood bridge has been covered in a loving mosaic.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

An off-the-beaten path cave with an underground lake.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

"They died with their boots on."

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.